来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景第6集第6集》

The important thing is not what really happened or

最重要的不是究竟发生了什么
what lies behind the text for modern scholars most of the time,

也不是经文背后的故事
unless you're doing historical Jesus research,

除非你在进行耶稣的史学研究
and I'll lecture about that at one period later.

过段时间我会讲到
But most of the time we're saying,

但大多数时候我们会说
what did Mark as an author want to do?

作为一个作者马可想做什么
Therefore we say,

所以我们说
why would end the Gospel this way if he did that?

为什么他要这样结束马可福音
Now that's--notice this historical critical method,

注意这历史批判手法
which is what I'm teaching in this class,

这就是我所传授的
is somewhat different from several other ways of reading text.

跟其它阅读经文的方式略有不同
I'm not implying by this

我并不是说